Try a used HP Deskjet 640C (e-Bay?). There's lots of them about. Seem to work on almost anything. Only downside is that a tiny plastic part on the cartridge transport rack mechanism can break, especially during a paper jam. It costs about 2p/3€/4c, but HP won't supply it - they demand a £50/€70/$75 servicing when the proverbial five-year-old could fix it with a couple of cutlery knives and a junior screwdriver.

Try a used HP Deskjet 640C (e-Bay?). There's lots of them about. Seem to work on almost anything. Only downside is that a tiny plastic part on the cartridge transport rack mechanism can break, especially during a paper jam. It costs about 2p/3€/4c, but HP won't supply it - they demand a £50/€70/$75 servicing when the proverbial five-year-old could fix it with a couple of cutlery knives and a junior screwdriver.

Bought a HP 4215 multi-function printer-fax-scan device today.

HP sent me here for a driver: http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.shtml

The device is not even listed but I am in hopes that the 4100-series driver will work on the 4200 series.

Will have to post a new Forum item asking for anyone familiar with HP drivers and Puppy.

Sure would be good to have an interactive DotPup into which one enters the HP printer model and it grabs the closest one and loads it -- same as the network card app.

Bought a HP 4215 multi-function printer-fax-scan device today.HP sent me here for a driver: http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.shtml
The device is not even listed but I am in hopes that the 4100-series driver will work on the 4200 series. doc

Just received this great response from HP Support:

Thank you for writing back to us.

David the HP Officejet 4215 driver is under development process.
Currently linux is having support to HP Officejet 4100 All-in-One
driver, please download it and install it. The driver should work.

This should resolve the issue. If you need further assistance, please
reply to this message and we will be happy to assist you further.

[color=blue]David the HP Officejet 4215 driver is under development process.
Currently linux is having support to HP Officejet 4100 All-in-One
driver, please download it and install it. The driver should work.

Now I just have to figure out how to load it in Puppy! doc

Downloaded the file and extracted using Guitar.

Then ran PupGet and Install Alien.

It stopped running and started fussing about it wanting to load into other than /usr, /etc, /root, or something like that and terminated.

Download this Dotpup (900 kb):
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Printing/HP-hpoj-0.91.pup
Install it.
Now you have a menue-entry in Dotpups, but it certainly will not work.
Also ROX opens with the folder
/usr/local/HP-hpoj-0.91
Right-click, -> open Xterm
In Xterm, type:
./run-xojpanel
This certainly will give you an error-message, copy it to a message please.

Bought a HP 4215 multi-function printer-fax-scan device today.HP sent me here for a driver: http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.shtml
The device is not even listed but I am in hopes that the 4100-series driver will work on the 4200 series. doc

Just received this great response from HP Support:

Thank you for writing back to us.

David the HP Officejet 4215 driver is under development process.
Currently linux is having support to HP Officejet 4100 All-in-One
driver, please download it and install it. The driver should work.

This should resolve the issue. If you need further assistance, please
reply to this message and we will be happy to assist you further.

Have a good day !
Sincerely,
Cynthia HP Total Care

Now I just have to figure out how to load it in Puppy!

doc

doc- do us all a favor... forward this email to HP Investor Relations
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/investor/board.html
and tell them there are 40 million Linux users worldwide who are getting mighty unhappy with this perpetual runaround... and could they kindly give this 'development process' a little push?
(You might also mention that the HP Total Care system ad on their website
http://www.hp.com/
clearly shows a North American woman taking your tech call, and your email was apparently not written by someone from this hemisphere, and do they think they will win the J.D. Power and Associates CS award again any time soon?)

they seem to be doing better with Lexmark Samsung etc than you'd think, but basically like HP. The enthusiasm here is not echoed in their wiki however:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsPrinters

bottom line I couldn't find anybody that had a multi-function fully working; but they may help some Puppies out with driver info for the dreaded CUPS...

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